A blog about overwhelm, procrastination, and to-do lists.

To Persuade Someone to Change a Behavior, Think Like a Marketer

What Advertisers Can Teach Us About Convincing Someone to Change Their Habits Imagine the Geico gecko pops up on your screen,...

The Ultimate Guide to Making Choices.

The Ultimate Guide to Making Choices is complete decision-making checklist with exercises for the most difficult decisions in our lives.

Decision-Making Worksheet

This worksheet accompanies our Ultimate Guide to Making Choices. Please read the post before downloading the worksheet. We recommend...

"Marie Kondo" your to-do list.

How the Strongweek Method takes a KonMarie -like approach to tidying up your planner. The world was simpler in 2014. For proof, I point...

Your New Productivity Hack: Procrastination

How the Strongweek Method turns procrastination into prioritization. "With great prioritization comes great motivation." - Spiderman...

Our 6 Favorite iOS Apps that Help You Stop Procrastinating

These iPhone apps make a perfect companion to Strongweek. Never procrastinate again. Top iOS apps for procrastinators.

ADHD vs. Reminders on Your Phone

Why your to-do list app can't beat Attention Deficit and what to do about it. Those reminders on your phone help sometimes... a little....

The Best iOS Planner App for Procrastinators

For most of history, our to-do lists were dictated by major events and broad categories like the changing seasons.

How Douglas Adams beat procrastination.

Rethinking what it means to “get started.” Before he wrote A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglass Adams cleaned chicken sheds. It...

Managers: Replace “What’s due each day?" With “What’s most important this week?”

Find clarity and reduce stress with the Strongweek method. I used to have a coworker who would write his top 5 things to get done each...

How to See All Your iOS Reminders Due This Year

You can arrange all your Apple Reminders by week, month, and year with Strongweek. By default, the iOS Reminders app puts your tasks in...

How to See All Your iOS Reminders Due Each Month

You can arrange all your Reminders by week, month, and year with Strongweek. By default, the iOS Reminders app puts your tasks in lists....

How to See All Your iOS Reminders Due Each Week

You can arrange all your Apple Reminders by week, month, and year with Strongweek. By default, the iOS Reminders app puts your tasks in...

"Learn More" is boring. Let me prove it.

The words on your site's Call-to-Action buttons are more important than you'd think. Marketers spend hours workshopping titles. We A/B...

The Best Weekly Agenda and Planner Apps for iOS, Ranked

All the apps in this list include at least one primarily week-based function. Most show your current week’s tasks on their home screen.

Daily Planners vs. Weekly Planners vs. Monthly Planners

What is the best way to organize your to-do list? What type of planner should you choose? Daily Planners Most To-Do list apps and...

Getting Back to Our Pen and Paper Planner Roots

Remember paper planners - little notebooks with the year on the cover and dates on each page? Open up your 1995, spiral-bound planner and...

Bullet Journal Inspo: 9 Pages for the New Year

In fact, the Strongweek Method is ideal for bullet journals. Since Strongweek doesn't rely on dates, times, and notifications, you get 9 per

The Easiest Way to Prioritize Your To-Do List: Ranking Tasks Has Never Been So Quick

Next time you add a task to your to-do list, don’t give it a date. Don’t even give it a priority. Download our to do list prioritizer.

Can’t Find a Good To-Do List App? Blame Microsoft Outlook ‘97

The first Microsoft Office didn’t include an email client. Staying in touch with contacts and remembering calendar appointments was still a

Forget the Milk: Where Productivity Apps Go Wrong

Most productivity apps aren’t great at what they’re supposed to do. Don’t get me wrong, they do what they say they’ll do. They let you enter

Productivity Apps and Smart-fridges Are Making David Allen's Getting Things Done Method Obsolete.

The future of productivity won’t involve over-complicated charts and trade-offs. Instead, technology will gather the data you need, pulling

Rethinking the To-Do List App for Procrastinators

Due dates don’t work when you leave tasks to the last minute. My favorite suit is dirty. There are little grease stains down the front of...

How “Simple” Is Your App Idea?

Again and again, the moment they heard “easy,” “simple,” or “basic” developers seemed to snap.

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